The 34-year-old Edinburgh forward’s Test career appeared to be over after he was not selected for a single squad last year.

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger has paid tribute to “wonderful friend and beautiful singer” Marianne Faithfull following her death aged 78. He was joined by bandmates Ronnie Wood and Keith ...

Maro Itoje says England are “ready to go” as they target an upset victory over Ireland that would launch their Guinness Six Nations in style. Itoje leads the team for the first time after taking over ...

Neymar has confirmed his return to his first club Santos, saying he had wished the move “to come true for a long time”.

The singer, who had a long relationship with Sir Mick Jagger at the height of her fame, also carved out a career as an actress.

Willie Mullins has been forced to rule his exciting prospect Anzadam out for the rest of the season. The five-year-old burst on to the scene earlier this season in November when winning a Grade Three ...

Claire Freemantle, 48, was rearrested on Tuesday after bereaved families criticised the police investigation into the tragedy.

Resident doctors in England have voted to go into dispute in a row over working conditions. Members of the BMA, formerly known as junior doctors, said there has been a lack of progress over reforms to ...

All 64 people on board an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter are feared dead in what is likely to be the worst US aviation disaster in almost quarter of a century, officials ...

Jurors have been shown multiple videos of a Chinese PhD student allegedly raping nine women in London and China. Zhenhao Zou, 27, allegedly filmed himself raping the women in different locations on ...

Forensic evidence links a man to the “callous and cowardly” murder of three police officers in Northern Ireland in 1982, a court has heard. Martin John McCauley, 62, with an address at Esmondale in ...

Joe Saumarez Smith has stood down from his role as chair of the British Horseracing Authority with immediate effect due to deteriorating health.